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Chapter 6 Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the “Method of Science”
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Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Introduction 1
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Part 1: Magic and the Making of Modernity
- Chapter 1 Bad Habits, or How Superstition Disappeared in the Modern World 17
- Chapter 2 Descartes’s Dreams, the Neuropsychology of Disbelief, and the Making of the Modern Self 33
- Chapter 3 Why Magic Cannot Be Falsifi ed by Experiments 49
- Chapter 4 Witches as Liars: Witchcraft and Civilization in the Early American Republic 66
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Part 2: Magic in Modernity
- Chapter 5 Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg: The Contested Arena of Modern Enochian Angel Magic 91
- Chapter 6 Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the “Method of Science” 119
- Chapter 7 Manning the High Seat: Seiðr as Self- Making in Contemporary Norse Neopaganisms 152
- Chapter 8 Reviving Dead Names: Strategies of Legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the Dark Aesthetic 171
- Selected Bibliography 197
- List of Contributors 203
- Index 205
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Introduction 1
-
Part 1: Magic and the Making of Modernity
- Chapter 1 Bad Habits, or How Superstition Disappeared in the Modern World 17
- Chapter 2 Descartes’s Dreams, the Neuropsychology of Disbelief, and the Making of the Modern Self 33
- Chapter 3 Why Magic Cannot Be Falsifi ed by Experiments 49
- Chapter 4 Witches as Liars: Witchcraft and Civilization in the Early American Republic 66
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Part 2: Magic in Modernity
- Chapter 5 Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg: The Contested Arena of Modern Enochian Angel Magic 91
- Chapter 6 Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the “Method of Science” 119
- Chapter 7 Manning the High Seat: Seiðr as Self- Making in Contemporary Norse Neopaganisms 152
- Chapter 8 Reviving Dead Names: Strategies of Legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the Dark Aesthetic 171
- Selected Bibliography 197
- List of Contributors 203
- Index 205